The story
Compound of park + run. The first parkrun event, originally known as the "Bushy Park Time Trial", was founded by Paul Sinton-Hewitt in 2004 but only adopted the name "parkrun" in 2008.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
parkrun
Today it means: An informal weekly 5 km (2 km for junior parkrun) running event that takes place in a park or similar location. Full definition →